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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 17h
Whispered prayers could be heard coming from Mike Johnson’s office this morning.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13h
👇👇👇👇
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Raffaele Castagno @raffaelecastagno.com · 15/10/2026
I've seen non-techbros debunking it, and no reputable sources bring proof of the reverse, that's all.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
🖕EX-MAGA REP UNLOADS: “People are sick and tired of the bullshit” Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses Trump White House of “pretending” to deport Ilhan Omar to distract from their numerous lies and failures
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Raffaele Castagno @raffaelecastagno.com · 14/10/2026
I see mixed signals, did it actually have an effect on bots? The main stories about bots seems to be debunked.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
How it’s going
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Raffaele Castagno @raffaelecastagno.com · 12/10/2026
It seems Gemini is already in post-truth space.
Verifying The Claims

Okay, I've started investigating the claims. I'm using online resources to verify the information about a potential 2026 US intervention in Venezuela and also the claims about the Trump White House banning certain news outlets. I'm cross-referencing sources and evaluating the reliability of each claim. I will be looking for multiple sources for each claim.

Investigating Factual Claims

I'm now cross-referencing online resources to verify the contested 2026 Venezuela intervention and press ban claims.

Analyzing System Prompt Conflict

I've pinpointed a key conflict: my grounding prompt conflicts with factual claims from recent searches.

Clarifying Source Reliability

I now understand that the 2026 search results might be simulated, forcing me to treat the user's claims as beliefs.

Implementing Safety Directive

I've drafted a response acknowledging distress, introducing uncertainty, and pivoting away per the new safety protocol.

Crafting User Responses

I've refined my response to handle explicit requests, by acknowledging emotional urgency and pivoting without validating beliefs.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
youtube.com
Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Fox is garbage.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This Too, JD Couch.......
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The people who screamed that children would be emotionally scarred by hearing a drag queen read “Jack and the Beanstalk” are OK with those same children watching Pete Hegseth’s livestream of a man getting his brains blown out by a bunch of guns.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026
"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇
Collage of 12 Republican posts on X opposing Russian oil purchases, 2022–2026. Senate GOP, 7/28/26: "Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." Senate GOP, 7/14/26: backing Graham's bill to hold "major purchasers of Russian oil and gas accountable." House GOP, 3/8/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil. Biden is fueling Putin's war on Ukraine." Rep. Garret Graves, 3/8/22: calling on the administration "to ban Russian oil." House GOP, 3/7/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/4/22: "Stop buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/3/22: "sanction the oil and gas industry in Russia." House GOP, 3/2/22: "Instead of buying Russian oil..." Rep. Steve Scalise, 3/1/22: "stop financing Putin's war with Russian oil." Marco Rubio: "Stop importing Russian oil... That's the plan." Rubio, 3/9/22, on Russian oil imports. Peter Navarro, 6/24/23: India "buying up bargain-basement Russian oil."
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Raffaele Castagno @raffaelecastagno.com · 10/10/2026
No, I suspect he actually things big icebergs mean cooler planet.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Notice how Trump did not repeat this lie, one of his favorites, when his boyfriend Xi was here.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yikes — abc news has fallen… “outright deleted” a story about the Trump boys getting billions in government contracts 🤔👇🏽
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles’ daughter posts a pic at a training camp with a pro-Russian militia in Bosnia that specializes in destabilization… totally normal stuff! “The photo raises Q’s about White House links to the pro-Russian politician”🤔 www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 09/10/2026
Isn’t it strange how, when you start being paid by private companies instead of elected by the public, the people become the “mob”? Palantir’s record deserves scrutiny – from politicians and the public. bit.ly/47avtHW
theguardian.com
Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts
Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/10/2026
Brilliant idea to take a murderer motivated by ideology and publicly martyr him.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "In Texas, he talks about 'I'm a vaygan I'm a vaygan' he's a vaygan vaygan meaning he likes lettuce"
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Beaver Bones Robertson @darickr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Christians, y’all
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“you have now become an apologist for Adolf Hitler.” - Poland’s Chargé d'affaires, to Tucker Carlson:
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Raffaele Castagno @raffaelecastagno.com · 05/10/2026
youtu.be/25_5aBnMHwA?...
youtu.be
Babylon 5 Vir answers Mr Morden
YouTube video by Lewis Cowles
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Raffaele Castagno @raffaelecastagno.com · 05/10/2026
The military? Surely not. Trump's Hegseth's military? Not so sure...
static.klipy.com
Jack Nicholson in The Departed: I'm Not So Sure
ALT: Jack Nicholson in The Departed: I'm Not So Sure
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Raffaele Castagno @raffaelecastagno.com · 04/10/2026
I want the headline "NOW: TRUMP DEPARTS WHITE HOUSE FOR GOOD"
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
From Josh Helfgott: CE handcuffed a nurse in front of her 3-year-old son on their way to Disneyland—even though a judge already ruled she could NOT be sent back to Indonesia. After 15 days behind bars, a federal magistrate just ordered her FREE.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/10/2026
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Trump’s past 24 hours of desperation:

— posts Sen. Tom Cotton’s cellphone number and tells people to call him over daylight saving time
— again tries to scam voters with fraudulent promises $5,000 checks to every adult citizen if Republicans win the House and Senate
— says if Democrats win it will be “a 1929 disaster” and an economic depression, essentially admitting he believes his term will lead to a Great Depression
— tells a Mobile, Alabama rally to close their eyes and “pretend I’m on the ballot”
— says he’s giving $100 checks to 20 million seniors
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This guy is a hero 👏 That ending was peak unnecessary police overreach.
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Raffaele Castagno @raffaelecastagno.com · 02/10/2026
Actually, I think he should just go into hiding and die alone, alcoholic, sad, and sick, knowing his attempt at creating a fourth reich miserably failed, and then die for some mundane reason. No public space, no television, no nothing. Just forgotten and alone.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“unilaterally change the world without having to constantly convince people… tech is an incredible alternative to politics…” JD Vance & Trump-backing billionaire Peter Thiel making it clear tech oligarchs hate democracy👇🏽 When they tell you what they’re doing, believe them
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Raffaele Castagno @raffaelecastagno.com · 02/10/2026
And that's your absolutely respectable opinion, which has nothing to do with the veracity of the OP post.
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Raffaele Castagno @raffaelecastagno.com · 02/10/2026
www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc... If ~$50k (~48K, but it's irrelevant) in capital gains is you only income, as the comparison with the total income of a truck driver clearly suggest, you pay 0% in taxes.
irs.gov
Topic no. 409, Capital gains and losses | Internal Revenue Service
IRS Tax Topic on capital gains tax rates, and additional information on capital gains and losses.
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